Welcome to the Youth Tax Justice Network!
We are a growing group of youth and students concerned with the issues of tax justice. Formed as an outcome of the 2007 World Social Forum, we work alongside the international
Tax Justice Network and its
sister networks. We seek to link young people into the campaign for a global financial system that enables citizen representation, sustainable fiscal policy, and more equitable societies.
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Please explore our site--
read articles written by members from around the world, participate in
our campaigns, and learn the
language of tax with us. Contribute yourself or find out more by contacting us at
youthtaxjustice@gmail.com.
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Why Campaign for Tax Justice?
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Estimates of annual cross-border dirty money flows top $1 trillion. A complex web of tax havens, secret bank accounts, and hidden ownership structures strips governments of revenue and enables corruption on a massive scale. Meanwhile, around half of world trade passes through tax havens—using transfer pricing, mispricing, and fake transactions, corporations evade taxes and keep value in the hands of a tiny elite.
The structures which support capital flight, profit-shifting, and tax evasion provide the supply-side of corruption. They provide the means for leaders to take control of the resources of their country and shift them out of the reach of the wider population. They allow networks of criminals and terrorists to threaten global peace and security. They permit multinational corporations to fleece their shareholders and employees. The current structures of offshore finance and the inadequate policing of dirty money mean “only the little people pay taxes,” while the profits of large corporations, corrupt elites, and criminals accrue safely hidden away in secret bank accounts.
Indeed, despite the high-profile rhetoric about the importance of development aid, the fact is that there is a net capital flow from poor countries to rich countries—and not the other way around. While aid flows to poor countries in recent years have averaged around $100 billion annually, five times that amount flows out of developing and transitional economies every year.
YTJN Objectives
Built upon the main precepts of the wider international Tax Justice Network, the Youth Tax Justice Network aims:
- to promote links between interested youth and students around the world, particularly involving developing countries;
- to raise the level of awareness about the secretive world of offshore finance and its effects;
- to foster a debate among students and youth on issues related to taxation and global finance;
- to provide a platform for building and sharing research;
- to encourage, support, and document local, national, and international campaign activity;
- to record the coverage of tax justice issues in university and other curricula;
- to link YTJN activities to the wider international network
YTJN espouses the Tax Justice Network Declaration:
Part 1: “Only the little people pay taxes…”
Part 2: A manifesto for tax justice
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